“But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.” KnowsPersonsSaidYoungGamesEnergyParticularTheaterMusicalMusical Theater Author:Elaine Paige
“And I said - Styx - as a musical group it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - this is where so much great stuff started.” SaidLightStuffGroupsShiningMusicalStyx Author:James Young
“I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A lot of us got started in public schools. Charlie Parker and Bud Powell, for example. But now there are no more music teachers in public elementary schools. It's like (Senator) Moynihan said, 'benign neglect.' Just let it rot and fester.” SaidHomeSchoolUsedTeacherExampleInstrumentsMusicalNeglectSenatorsPublic SchoolCharlieBudBenignElementary SchoolMusical InstrumentsMusic Teacher Author:Max Roach
“Mother loathed the all-black B movies Hollywood made for the "colored" audience, where the stereotypes were broader and more offensive to her, and where the musical interludes did no justice to real talent, she said, but trivialized it.” MadeSaidRealMotherBlackJusticeAudienceTalentHollywoodMusicalOffensiveStereotypeAll BlackReal Talent Book:The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter Source: The Hottest Water in Chicago: Notes of a Native Daughter
“On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.” SaidMatterHandsEmotionSubjectsObjectsMusic IsAimMusicalPropositionsSubject Matter Author:Eduard Hanslick
“November 18. . . I dig musicians, I feel they have the most to offer me mentally and emotionally because they think basically along the same lines that I do; extremely creative people. Music is Life. As Captain Beefheart once said 'God is a perfect musical note.” PeopleThinkingFeelsSaidLinesPerfectCreativeOffersMusicianMusic IsNotesMusicalCaptainsCreative PeopleNovemberMusic Is LifeMusical NotesCaptain Beefheart Author:Pamela Des Barres
“There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.” SaidUsedColorPaintingMusicalRhythmCompositionKinshipMusical Composition Author:Alton Tobey